Josefin Arnell and Aapo Nikkanen presented two person exhibition Smile and be happy because things could be worse at Helsinki’s Sorbus which opened November 25 and ran to December 17, 2017.
The installation creates a strange dynamic between private and public moments with Facebook chat histories printed onto shower curtains which are hung around the space, horse rosettes are pinned to the wall with drawn on cartoon faces laughing, a large print titled ‘Zombie curtain’ shows a blood stained women with a T-shirt that reads : Empower women.
The exhibition also includes a video showing a child and a vacuum cleaner. Turning the gallery into a domestic, bathroom type space, the works explore “different levels of privacy and embarrassment.”**
